Being an emerging citizen in our globalized society, I feel a responsibility to better our interaction with communities across the globe through sustainable agriculture and strong international connections. As a member of this growing, modern generation, I realize that we have to start taking serious actions towards saving our environment. Small steps including bringing awareness and even helping out in your local community help promote the concept of positive change in all regions of the world, and can make a difference.

This is why going on the Global Student Embassy trip to Nicaragua is so essential to me. Given the opportunity to travel to a colonial city in the foothills of Nicaragua, I am so excited to work alongside many local environmentalists and community members of Boaco. Here I will get the chance to learn and work in an entirely different country and become immersed in their culture. Not only does what we are doing help insure an immediate change for this small thriving community, but it helps develope drive and determination into the minds of our young generation. This promotes a long term ideal of environmental stability and efficiency.

In Nicaragua our program incorporates learning new skills such as the biointensive method of farming. We will do volunteer work in the biointensive garden at Clinica Verde, which is a non-profit health clinic for Nicaraguan women and children. As members of GSE, we have partnered with Clinica Verde, to help provide healthy produce for the families and community members living there. I truly believe that when I return home for this amazing, growing journey, I will apply my new knowledge, and bring environmental and agricultural awareness to my community in Sebastopol California.